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BACKGROUND
Dementia with Lewy bodies is a common form of dementia in the elderly, characterised clinically by fluctuating cognitive impairment, attention deficits, visual hallucinations, parkinsonism, and other neuropsychiatric features. Neuroleptic medication can provoke severe sensitivity
RATIONALE IN ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE: Selective serotonine uptake inhibitors (SSRI) have demonstrated their effectiveness for symptomatic treatment of depression, as well as for behavioral and psychological disorders in dementia patients, particularly in Alzheimer's disease.
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SSRI are
OBJECTIVE
To use case studies to add the benefit of personal experience with galantamine to published literature and to demonstrate the type of patients that may benefit from this treatment.
METHODS
We describe eleven patients, aged 57-90 years, fulfilling the consensus diagnostic criteria for
Rotigotine (RTG) is a non-ergot dopamine agonist developed as a new transdermal formulation, indicated for use in early and advanced Parkinson's disease (PD). The potential advantages of the RTG patch include immediacy of effect onset, constant drug delivery, better tolerability avoiding drug peaks
Transdermal rotigotine (RTG) is a non-ergot dopamine agonist (D3>D2>D1), and is indicated for use in early and advanced Parkinson's disease (PD). RTG patch has many potential advantages due to the immediacy of onset of the therapeutic effect. Of note, intestinal absorption is not necessary and drug
BACKGROUND
Rivastigmine is a carbamate drug designed to inhibit both acetylcholinesterase and butyrylcholinesterase by reversibly covalently bonding to these enzymes. Butyrylcholinesterase in-creases as Alzheimer disease progresses, so its inhibition may become more important as the disease worsens.